Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Python
Military Operations Analyst, Principal
Sierra Nevada Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado
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💰 $165,010 - $226,889 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Join a fast-paced, agile team of analysts conducting analysis of future and existing military systems to inform strategic, program, business development, and customer decisions
- Execute impactful studies focused on quantifying the mission effectiveness of SNC technology concepts in military operations
- Perform modeling, simulation and analysis of multi-domain military systems using industry standard modeling and simulation tools such as AFSIM and STK and develop novel modeling simulation tools when necessary
- Support concept of operations (CONOPS) evaluation, requirements definition, customer engagements, trade analyses, and proof of concept exercises
- Employ strong technical, analytical and creative skills to visualize, evaluate, disseminate and iterate on analytical results that support mission systems, weapon systems, sensors, and aircraft technology development
- Effectively executing study plans and shaping designs of experiments for assessing military utility
- Researching military scenario performance factors
- Modeling and simulation of military systems and scenarios
- Analyzing simulation results and conducting statistical analysis
- Identifying insights within data sets
- Constructing a clear, concise, effective story based on study findings
- Presenting results to stakeholders of multiple levels of seniority
Requirements
- Bachelor's of Science degree in System Engineering or related discipline and typically 14 or more years of relevant experience
- Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of engineering principles and practices
- Progressive experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
- Advanced understanding of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles
- Experience with DoD mission modeling codes (AFSIM, STK, SUPPRESSOR, ESAMS, AJEM, Vulnerability Toolkit, RADGUNS, FLAME, etc)
- Experience aggregating model results across various DoD modeling tools
- Working knowledge of lethality analysis, seeker trades, and fly out models
- Experience with trade-space analyses for weapons payloads
- Experience working in or familiarity with object-oriented programming or standard tools such as Matlab, Python, and C++
- Active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
- U.S. Security Clearance is required
- U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance for employment
- (We Prefer) Military strategy and/or service
- (We Prefer) Master's degree or higher in related field of study (operations research, engineering, mathematics, physics)
- (We Prefer) AFSIM Developer Training or AFSIM Plug-in development experience
- (We Prefer) Experience in SAP environments
- (We Prefer) Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance
